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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom did Assunta have "nothing but harsh words for" (7)?
(a) Her former fiancé.
(b) Salvatore's mother.
(c) Salvatore's former fiancé.
(d) Her children.

2. How many children did Assunta and Salvatore have?
(a) Four.
(b) None.
(c) Eight.
(d) Two.

3. What would Salvatore do when his rheumatism made it impossible for him to work?
(a) Sob in the dark.
(b) Drink till dawn.
(c) Lay in his bed.
(d) Rest on the beach.

4. What word is used to describe Salvatore's body after marrying?
(a) Frail.
(b) Flabby.
(c) Thin.
(d) Husky.

5. Why did Assunta not marry the man to whom she had been engaged?
(a) She ended the engagement when she learned he had cheated.
(b) He walked out on her and never returned.
(c) He was killed during military service.
(d) He left her for another woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Salvatore's manners after marrying Assunta and moving to their home?

2. Who does Salvatore cry to when he returns home after learning he is not to be married to the girl he loved?

3. How is Assunta described physically?

4. How does Salvatore feel toward his ex-fiance after learning they will not marry?

5. What rare quality does the narrator say he was trying to paint a portrait of in his story "Salvatore"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Assunta described after she and Salvatore marry? What does she look like? What type of person is she?

2. What does the narrator say he set out to do in the story?

3. What did Salvatore's fiancé tell him "with the blunt directness of her race" (5) when he went to see her at her home after he returned rom military service?

4. Though Salvatore found Assunta physically unattractive, what could she offer him if they married?

5. What did Salvatore do for work after he and Assunta married?

6. How did Salvatore's family learn he was not going to marry the girl he loved?

7. Describe Salvatore washing his babies near the end of the story?

8. Why does Salvatore understand that the girl he loves will not marry him?

9. What would Salvatore do if his rheumatism became too bad for him to work?

10. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

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